The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-04


DONE" Read Judge Willie's remarks on
pages 265 and $780,
But are these just reasons to believe that
prohibition can be made substantially prac-
ticable; that Is, to degree that will justify
the laws II we judge from certain sys-
tematic, interested and widely circulated
reports the answer will be ''no." As u
sample take the following. soon after At
lanta had voted Prohibition, but before the
time arrived for the law to take effect, the
following appeared in one OF our Texas
papers:
Returns from the recent Atlanta elections
point moral, though they may never adorn
tale. Prohibition has been tried in that city
for all tits worth. 1t has had sole control Of
government and II it were beneficial, or
even contained in it any germ OF good, 1t
had fair opportunity to show 1t. The re-
suit of its sway has been loss to the town
of hundreds of thousands of dollars annu-
ally. Streets of empty houses and most
marked falling OIL In almost every branch of
vast trade have shown 1t to be an unmixcd
curse. At the recent prlmaries, on square
test issue, II was badly beaten, ~ the dis
patch words it, was "swept out of the
county" Its rule in Atlanta has been short
| lived Its sway over the peoples minds
much shorter. The public may look for an
early reversal of established things in At
lanta.-Sau Antonio Express.
Upon this delicate Moroccan, the In
dex. an Atlanta paper. thus comments
This Ia one OF the most condensed state
ments Of falsehoOd that we have ever seen.
IL Is inconceivablc that greater amount of
untruth could be expressed In so few words,
Prohibition has NOT been " tried for oil it is
WORTH" Tho liquor licenses, granted before
the prohibition law was adopted, have not
yet expired, and liquor of all kinds is law
fully sold in Atlanta this very day. Prohi-
bition has not had "fair opportunity to
show what good there is IN It," We have
lost nothing annually" for il was only in
November last that the vote on prohibition
was taken. We have lost nothing in any
way. Business Of most kinds. probably of
all kinds, is better than it was last year, or
than 1t has ever been. All our railroads
are bringing moro into Atlanta. and taking
more out of 1t than they ever did There
are no .streets of empty houses" Good
houses arc in demand. The population ms
greatly increased within year. There are
five hundred more applications for seats in
the public schools than there were last year
In the late election there was no "square
test ISSUE" Prohibition men by hundreds
upon hundreds voted for the ticket that was
elected, and among these voters for the sue
ccssful ticket wero many Of the strongest
and most pronounced prohibition men In
the city.
Taken altogether. the above extract from
the San Antonio Express is n marvel I'm
mendacious literature. We have never
seen its equal.
Mark you that the excerpt from the
San Antonio Express, passing iudg-
ment upon the success OF pro ibition
laws in Atlanta was prepared before
hand and that iDcautious journal pub
lished it too soon. Just such antici-
pated proofs Of failure are furnished
TO all newspapers that will publish
them. In nine cases out of ten they
are manufactured out of whole cloth
for the occasion. Here is another
sample from the "New Orleans States"
The fact that prohibition is dead issue
In Georgia was demonstrated Mt Atlanta q
few dfys ago when II was knocked out by
asy thst 0 the proT5iiory law was siR IN force e
only few months, 1t almost destroyed the
entire business of Atlanta, and the citizens
of that growing and enterprising city real
lied that 1t was suicidal policy to allow
sentiment to stand in the way of the de-
mands of trade.
have in my possession Atlanta pa
pcrs which annihilatc this failure
paragraph" just as tho San Antonio
papers article was ground TO powder.
Our first proposition is that
PROHIBITION PROHIBITS BETTER THAN
REGULATION REGULATES.
And flour opponents do not abandon
regulation because of its failure to |
regulate, by parity of reasoning pro-
hibition should not be denounced for |
less failure to prohibit. The fact is,
the liquor traffic resists to the last
ditch all law.
Though in their Chicago platform
they say:
.. That II Is our duty, as IL Is OF all good
citizens, TO obey the laws OF our country,
and we condemn every violation OF law
regardless OF the damage inflicted in its
observance upon any individual, or upon
our general business interests.
This resolution is designed to rcbut
the accusation of lawlessness, which all
mankind has preferred against the
liquor traffic. The resolution embod-
les three distinct and comprehensive
propositions:
/. That liquor dealers ought to obey
the laws of their country.
2. That they condemn all violations
of the law.
8. That this condemnation holds
good even when the observance Of law |
inflicts damage upon individuals or up
on general interests.
So far as words go. the purcst pai
OF could say no noe. In fact the |
resolutions express degree of defer
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